Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
Testing the elements to be painted
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade , Visual Artist and Designer
Joined July 2020
Joined July 2020
About the video: Testing the elements to be painted
Overview
“The time has come to choose the surface and object to be painted. Lets test?”
In this video lesson Maria Gabriela Andrade addresses the topic: Testing the elements to be painted, which is part of the Domestika online course: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art. Learn acrylic techniques to bring colorful, vibrant pieces to life on a range of surfaces.
Partial transcription of the video
“Testing the elements to be painted In this class, I will test the elements that I will choose for my final project. From previous research, choose the images that you like the most for you to represent. If this is your first time, I advise you to make small drawings of those elements that you like and want to represent and test how they work with each other. For my final project, I chose to make bananas, cashews and banana trees. I'm going to start making some small drawings to understand how they work with each other. I'm going to start representing a banana tree here and understand how a ...”
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Course summary for: Acrylic Painting: Create Colorful Tropical Art
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Category
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Areas
Acrylic Painting, Naturalistic Illustration, Painting
Maria Gabriela Andrade
A course by Maria Gabriela Andrade
Rio de Janeiro native Maria Gabriela Andrade started off her career in fashion and has been working in the field ever since. She has studied at SENAI CETIQT in Rio de Janeiro, Central Saint Martins in London, and Porto Illustration School in Porto, always with the intention of broadening her artistic vision.
Her work explores nature as well as tropical and Brazilian culture. Using lots of color, contrast, texture, and organic shapes, she loves experimenting with different mediums like watercolor, gouache, pastels, colored pencils, and acrylics.
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